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Tip 215. Develop your timing instinct before bringing up an appropriate subject. |
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Tip 216. Read the other person's mindset by examining his or her opening comment. |
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Tip 217. Relax your body language if you want a relaxed conversation. |
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Tip 218. Recognize that the response you get will often reflect your own tone and delivery. |
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Tip 219. Ask easy questions first to relax people. |
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Tip 220. Ask for opinions rather than information. |
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Tip 221. Don't ask questions too broad to answer. |
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Tip 222. Tickle people's creative fancies. |
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Tip 223. Pique others' curiosities with an incomplete comment. |
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Tip 224. Avoid questions that lead people on when you have no interest in their answers. |
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Tip 225. Don't state the obvious. |
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Tip 226. Jump over the ho-hum screen. |
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Tip 227. Add fresh information or observations rather than echoing what has been said. |
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Tip 228. Ask to be enlightened when the conversation is over your head. |
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Tip 229. Keep your mouth shut if the conversation is way over your head. |
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Tip 230. Take no more and no less time than a subject is worth. |
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Tip 231. To share the topic, change the pace. |
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Tip 232. Add description as elaboration. |
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Tip 233. Make your aim to entertain. |
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Tip 234. Work on witty remarks. |
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Tip 235. Tell good stories. |
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Tip 236. Try to relate your stories to the subject at hand. |
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Tip 237. Make other people the hero or heroine of your anecdotes. |
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Tip 238. Respond with a "saver" if your remarks breed silence. |
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Tip 239. Do a reality check frequently to see if people are really interested in what you have to say. |
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Tip 240. Give your listener a chance to leave if bored. |
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Tip 241. When you're caught not listening, give a keep-talking nudge. |
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Tip 242. Avoid current stock fillers. |
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Tip 243. Unwind a nonstop speaker with a popquiz. |
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Tip 244. Encourage people to continue what they were saying before being interrupted. |
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Tip 245. When someone "pulls your leg," release it. |
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Tip 246. Cover your own and others' faux pas with past ones. |
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Tip 247. Tactfully reject questions that are too personal. |
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Tip 248. Signal before you're offended. |
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Tip 249. Consider your options when listening to a person with "fixed" ideas. |
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